Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 28, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 January 1887 — Page 7

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WOMAN AND HOME!

HARD LIFE OF

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GIRLS WHO

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THE CITY.

Tlie Discipline and Training-of Children. Care of the Feet—To Remove Spots and Stains—FiisiiincM—Secret of Popularity.

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There arc working girls aud working girls, bat it is unjubt to condemn all because some go astray granted that many of them spend their money foolishly, that many of them are ready to barter body and soul for luxuries and pleasure and gay attira Hundreds do that and worse but there are as well hundreds who struggle along under heavy burdens, suffer the pangs of hunger and the hardships entailed by scant clothing and cheerless shelter, yet never dream of doing wrong in order that they may live well or comfortable. Be just to them, for they merit justice. Again and again has the story been told in our daily papers of the meagre pittance paid women and girls who work in various branches of sewing, yet the same good but mistaken people I have already spoken of soofT at the idea that such tedious, incessant labor is so poorly paid for. They say it is impossible!

As a rule, a woman's pay for almost every kind of work suffers by comparison with that given to man not only because it is the custom to scale down women's pay, but as well because workers are so abundant. The lighter grades of sewing—scarf making, hemstitching, ctc.—are seriously encroached upon by girls and ladies who like to employ their many leisure moments and at the same time increase their supply of pocket money. (I think they would be a little self denying though if they knew their increased spending money meant a corresponding decrease in the bread and butter supply of less favored women.) A great many ladies make and sell to "middle" men various kinds of fancy articles, make ties, embroider slippers and handkerchiefs, and even do the tedious work of hemstitching mufflers, just, as they phrase it. to pass away the time. They work leisurely and accept small pay, because they •re not obliged to earn money, never thinking that by doing so they compel poor •women, women who depend upon their needle for support, to work for starvation wages.

No one will deny that the lifo of the girl who sews for a living is a hard one, whether she works on shirts or underwear, coarse, heavy clothing or delicate muslins and Saces —the constant stitch, stitch, by hand or machine, is trying alike to nerves, eyesight and body. To sit all day and far into the night —often working all night so as to complete «n order—in a dingy, cold room, unrefreshed by good meals or a comfortable bed, working until heart and eyesight grow faint and the hands almost lose their cunning—no ono can imugiuo what torture it is. No one objects to hard work, if the pay is in proportion, or of such an amount as would permit the barest necessities for existence but she is a woman, make her work hard and pay her as little as possible—that seems to be the thought and aim of all employers.

It is the same in all employments, whether it is the wearing lifo of cash girls, the tiresome duties of saleswomen, typewriting, circular folding, envelope addressing or the thousand and one things feminine brains and •fingers are adapted to. I will not try to show where the fault lies, but I do know it exists. Uor will I touch upon the life of women who «re obliged to support families as well as themselves upon their scant earnings. If it is hard to feed, clothe and shelter one, what must it be to feed, clothe and shelter half a .dozen or more human beings?

That many women do that we all know, and we know, too, that many of them sink under the heavy burden or abandon it. •Every day the papers tell us those sad stories, «nd it is not to be wondered at that girls and young women seek some escape from tho fate •forced upon their mothers and sisters. There is no excuae for wrong doing, but there is often a reason for it. Those who have made study of the hardships and temptations which shadow tho life of poor girls cannot *«II to reel a sympathy for them or a pity for their wrong doing when, tried beyond endurance, they yiold to temptation.

Let me briefly tell you of some cases I have met in my researches for facts concerning a topic which interests me.

Girls who work as clerks in some of the largest establishments in this city and Brooklyn for $5 a week, out of that they pay board, clothe themselves—they are obliged to be well drawed—and pay all expenses incidental upon existence girls who work thfe typewriters from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m., for $3 and $5 a week, supporting themselves: girls and women who stamp wrappers and fold .papers—salary $4 per week girls who fold circulars, some of them working from 8 in the morning to 0 at night in a damp, cold cellar, for 80 cents per day and girls who hemstitch silk mufflers at from 15 to 30 cents •piece. Good pay! as I hear a skeptic assert My friends, try it just once.

Take a square of surah silk, draw just six thread*, not flvo or seven, but just six, one and three-quarter inches from the edge, then torn in tho hem and hemstitch four sides of a yard of slippery, delicate tinted silk. If you make a misstitch, spot the silk ever so slightly or get the hem a fraction of alt inch too wide or too narrow you will havo to pay 75 cents for spoiliug tho piece. If it is done correctly you will get 30 cents for it if you are working for an establishment, 15 cents if you are working for a middle man. By sowing steadily all day long and far into the evening you may bo able to ilnish two. But it won't be possible to make two a day for a week. It is too trying upon the eyes.

Throo are only a few cases, and not tho worst, by any means. To show that the mutts scaling down process is carried into higher grades of work, let me give one more instance:

A lady of considerable literary ability was recently employed upon one of the oldest weekly newspapers in the country. She did all the editorial work, got up a column each of foreign, miscellaneous and local news, did the literary, musical and dramatic notes and mad? up all tie reading notes and advertise* ments, besides correcting proof. For pay she received the munificent sum of $6 a week. As she boarded some distance from the office, too far to walk, her car fare amounted to 41.20 a week, leaving for total expenses, drns, otc., (4.80. She was obliged to abandon her position finally because her employer wished to reduce her salary.

I think I am not out of the way estimating that the average working girl, or woman, receives from $1.50 to 16 per week. If any one thinks that is enough, let than reflect that with that salary the employe is obliged to provide herself with respectable clothing, food, ehel{$, shoes, pay doctor's bills—for even poor people fall ill occasionally—boy medicines and, in many instances, help support one or more member* of her family. To lire, and that is all, is what a poor girl works for. By poor I do not mean a girl who is obliged to w\rk in order that she may secure BtUe luxuries or pleasures, but one who works that she tuay live.—Cor. New York Graphic.

To Kemeva Spots asi tolas.

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We are so often tor rsdpes tor

moving different kinds of stains that we have clipped from Our Country Home the following excellent directions, said to be taken from a German newspaper:

Grease.—White goods, wash with soap or alkaline lyes colored cottons, wash with, French chalk or Fuller's earth, and dissolve away with benzine or ether.

Oil Colors, Varnish and

Resins.—On

white

or colored linens, cottons or woolens, use rectified oil of turpentine, alcohol lye and their soap. On silks use benzine, ether and mild soap very cautiously.

Vegetable Colors, Fruit, Red "Wine atod Red Ink.—On white, goods, sulphur fumes or chlorine water. Colored cottons or woolens, wash with ltikewarm soap lye or ammonia silks the same, but mare cautiously.

Blood and Albuminoid Matters.—Steep in lukewarm water./ If pepsin or the juice of carica papaya can be procured, the spots are first softened with lukewarm water, and then either of these substances is applied.

Iron-Spots and Black ^—White goods, 1bot oxalic acid, dilute muriatic acid with little fragments of tin. On fast dyed cottons and woolens citric acid is cautiously and repeatedly applied. Silks impossible.

Acids, Vinegar, Sour Wine, Must, Sour Fruits.—White goods, simple washing, followed up by chloride water, if a fruit color accompanies the acid. Colored cottons, woolens and silks are very carefully moistened with dilute ammonia with the finger end. In case of delicate colors it will be found preferable to make some prepared chalk into a thin paste with water and apply it to the spots.

Tannin from Chestnuts, Grease Walnuts, etc., or Leather.—White goods, hot chlorine

water

and concentrated tartaric acid. Colored cottons, woolens and silks, apply dilute chlorine water cautiously to the spot, washing it away and reapplying it several times.

Tar, Cart Wheel Grease, Mixtures of Fat, Resin and Acetic Acid.—On white goods, soap and oil of turpentine, alternating with streams of water. Colored cottons and woolens, rub it with lard, let lie, soap, let lie again, and treat alternately with oil of turpentine and water. Silks the same, mors carefully, using benzine instead of the oil of turpentine.—Atlanta Constitution.

Care of the Feet.

An old fogy who thinks he is a "wise old doctor" has been giving women, through the medium of The Medical World, some remarkable advice on the subject of their complexions. He has evidently run against some cold blue noses or Mrs. Wise Old Doctor has been exercising her wifely prerogative by, vulgarly speaking, warming her cold feet on him. Ho says he has "had long experience," whatever he may mean by that, and ho prescribes thusly: First, procure woolen stock* ings, not such as you buy at the store under the name of lamb's wool that you can read a newspaper through, but the kind that your Aunt Jerusha in the country knits for you, that will keep your feet dry and warm in spite of wind and weather. Second, change them every morning, hanging the fresh ones by the tire during the night Third, procure thick calfskin boots, double uppers and triple soles and wear them from the 1st of October to the 1st of May, making frequent applications of some good oil blacking.

Now I want to ask you if you ever heard such nonsense in your life? A woman in stockings and shoes like that would hardly be able to walk out doors and in the house she would be in absolute torture. Her feet would burn and swell and more than as likely as not she would get some sort of a tormenting skin disease to pay for wearing coarse wool on feet accustomed to silk and fine thread. Thick silk or cotton stockings will keep cold feet quite as warm as tho wool and at a more even temperature, and the walking boots of the day are good enough and warm enough for any woman not partially or totally paralysed. I wish these wise old doctors and other old fogies would devote themselves to the sad subjects of the "Injurious Effect of the Suspender," "Paralysis Caused by Pointed Toed Shoes," "The Cottonbacked Waistcoat as a Cause of Pneumonia" and "Half Hose as Related to Cramp in the Calves." There plenty of food for thought in these subjects, at least such thought as theirs, and we women might have a rest. Likiwise our clothes.—New York Graphic.

Discipline of Children.

A child should not be taught to let strangers' things alone because they do not belong to members of his family, but because they have no right to touch them. A mother once said to her child: "Don't touch that it is Miss Brown's." Thereby implying that because it was not tho mother's he must not touch it, when Miss Brown said: "That is not the reason just because it is mine that gives him the impression that I am unkind. It is because he has no business with my white embroidery silk, any more than he has with yours." Tho mother would have let the child have it, if it had been hers, because darling wanted it

It is safe to say that this "same child destroyed hundreds of dollars' worth of property before his 10th year. Spools of silk thread cut cross ways the bottoms of cane seated chairs cut with a table knife a watch frnlfmi from a drawer and pounded up silver spoons pounded and lost, useful and valuable books defaced, and many other articles were among the things which were destroyed. These losses added greatly to the expenses of tho family. It was looked upon by the mother as unavoidable when her husband remonstrated with her she said: "The child did not know any better, and it was too young to be corrected."

A bright child at six months can be taught He soon learns to let things alone, and understands it, too but ho will never understand no if ii is never spoken in his presence. It is considered, by good authority, that a child from 5 to 15 months can understand the will of its nurse or mother, and is a proper sub* jeet of law and discipline. There are many mothers who cannot be converted to this belief, because they persist in understanding discipline to mean cruelty, when there is no such meaning here—but to train, to bring up, to educate^—P. A. Hardy in The Current

A Plain Spoken Visitor.

Let every mother ask herself this question: "What kind of a child did I like before I had children of my own!"

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dren what she now sees daily, nay hourly, without notice in her own.—P. A. Hardy in The Current

The Secret of Popularity.

A very wise old lady once told me that the secret of popularity among nien was to make them have a good time without letting them be conscious of any effort on yduf part to do it I beg leave to differ with tier in one respect After the good time4 is had a man should be fully informed of all that one ha® done. It makes him appreciate it Some women havo an idea that a man enjoys being pranced about and held on to as if be were portable property, like spoons' or button hooks.

Now this is what I think: If you want to make a man have a good time, and thank you for it, take him first of all to a pleasant house. See that he is presented to the brightest women, the prettiest ones, and those who are likely to interest him most, then let him alone. Afterward your turn will come. When the mushrooms and champagne are under discussion later on there will not be a courteous act of yours that he will not remember, there will not be a single person to whom you have presented him that he will count as more agreeable than yourself, and he will confess in his heart of hearts that your power is strongest, and that you are not afraid to try it—"Bab" in Now York Star.

The Way Out of the Difficulty. Some sewingwomen have no knowledge of housework. Very welL Let them work for their board while they learn. They would have plenty of food and a good home. They would be better off than they are now when their $2.50 or $3 or (4 a week has to pay for their scanty food and fuel in wretched rooms, add nothing is left Good housewives would willingly teach one unaccustomed to the work if she would remain for wages after she could earn them. It seems to me this is the solution of the question for women who barely make a living at sewing. They must be put iu communication with those who so bitterly need domestic help. Many of them would no doubt take kindly to housework. They would feel the sense of comfort and permanence and warmth of family life. They could save the larger part of their wages, and in time have a small but real independence. If underpaid sewing women will take well paid domestic service they will not need charity.—Lucy Stone in Boston Globe.

.Gas In the Nursery.

I would most strongly urge mothers riot £o use gas in their nurseries, or paraffine lamps, if it can possibly be avoided. Gas kills almost every plant kept in the room where it is burned, and children are just like plants they require above all things pure air, light and sunshine. Not gaslight, but as much daylight as possible. The sunniest rooifr^lth the biggest window should be the little ones' room, and no dark hangings to hold dust and obscure the light Gas is injurious in many ways. Its light is too strong for tho eyes, it absorbs all the pure air in a room before the children can get a chance, tho heat of it is extremely enervating, and there is always the danger of leakages leakages so small as to be hardly perceptible, but quite large enough to bo pernicious to health. Paraffine lamps or movable lamps of any kind are extremely dangerous in a nursery.—Cor. Housewife.

A Vegetarian Diet.

"The essential thing to remember," says Laura C. Holloway in "The Buddhist-Diet Book," "the essential thing to remember, in beginning a vegetarian diet, is to rightly combine alimentary substances which differ in their compositions. This is the true secret of vegetable cooking, together with iu areful *nd proper preparation. There is no dearth of food or of ways of cooking it, and 1 he inspiration to adopt it is increased when all tho benefits derived from it are realised." Mrs. Holloway has done very wisely to lay stress on bow '4*ightly to combine alimentary substances," since most of the opponents of a purely vegetable diet base some of their strongest arguments against it on the fact that in tho sameness of such food a cloying nauseating effect is produced, which results in a repulsive feeling about the very name.— New York Star.

fat (or the Children.

One point is well brought out—the necaBity that exists for fat, in some form, as an element of diet, especially in children. "Butter should never be spared. The father or mother (who can afford it) who does not allow their children a sufficiency of butter deserves to pay the surgeon's bill of a later day ior operations on joints, and scrofulous glancfc. to say nothing of bills for marasmus, tabes ocsenterica, hydrocephalus and phthisis (consumption), together with the bills for board and lodging at seaside health resorts. There is such a thing as 'penny wise and pound foolish,' and this is a case in point" Nothing could be better than this advice, although the grammar of tho matter might be improved. The advice may be rather commonplace, but it is good.—Book Review.

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jected to a certain habit which a friend's child had to a mutual friend of the two. Several years afterward this mutual friend spent a time at her home. She noticed that her little girl had the same habit which the mother had previously so mercilessly con* demned.

The plain spoken visitor said, when she had Mm many times the same fault go unreproved and unnoticed which, years before, her friend had considered so grave a fault in a friend's child: "Do you remember bow you used to complain of this same fault in our friend's child, and how it disgusted usf It appears just the same to me in both children." The mother blushed very red and said: 1 am mtlch obliged to you I didn't think how it looked.* She was not offended, because it was spoken in kindiw by one that die knew loved hsr sweet littie daughter dearly. How often have single friends who are lovers of children, when importnmd to visit a married friend, returned nidi no desire to repeat the visit on aooount of ibe rode and disorderly thUm. The mother, as a young Wttatir w*"""1"! other people's

TERKE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

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There is no foe to domestic peace'and comfort like fussiness. It arises largely from lack of system or plan and from too great attention to minor details. Some housekeepers have the habit of stirring up everything at once. They begin their day's work anywhere without any relation to what is most urgent or necessary to be accomplished. They lose sight of tho always excellent rule—one thing at a time, and that first which is most important It is a good plan to sit quietly down at the beginning of each day and take a survey of the domestic field. Decide what must be done, and what in case of lack of time, or the intervention of other duties, may be put off, and then set to work without undue haste to perform necessary duties. Learn to do it quietly, without noise. Be careful to take no useless steps. There is a vast amount of strength expended in this way, and nervous energy wasted.—Brattleboro Household.

TCellie Arthnr.

Miss Sellie Arthur, daughter of the late expresident and heiress of one-half of his estate, makes rare promise of developing into a ^harming woman. She has her father's kindly eyes, and also his brow. Her nose bears a resemblance to his, but, of course, is «mallpr and more exquisite. She has a mouth as soft and sweet as the mouth of the Georgian women,who, if Voltaire may be believed, have the "only perfect mouths in the world." Her cheeks are round, full and of the most delicate pink, and they dwindle and narrow intoa rhin which is like that of the marble Ariadne in the Vatican. Miss Arthur is a bright conversationist, with decided literary taste.— Chicago Tribune. ________

Prudent Compromise.

Everyman must recognize the fact that prudent compromise is the main ingredient of ecrthly happiness. As some men are born misers, so some wocnen are born housekeepers. Tho one consideratkn, the one ambition of their life, is to put from their premises the least infinitesimal particle of dust and dirt, to polish their tinware to a degree of brilliancy that shall rival the sun, and toscour tbeir windows to a degree of dearnea that shall rival the other, and the full and free indnlgtoceof this desire I* a* criminally selfish •s is the indulgence of the miser* money hoarding propcutiy.-Good Homfceeping.

WHAT SHALL WE WEAR?

ARTISTIC HEADDRESSES FOR THE HOUSE.

Pretty Caps for Old and Youngs—New Styles for Hen-Fashions for Everybody English Walking Stockings.

Morning Caps. Morning caps, while generally unbecoming, are largely worn, not only by the younger married ladies, but by single ones as well. There is a wide choice in these caps, some being, as has been intimated, very unbecoming, while others are quite Frenchy and attractive.

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LACK AND HANDKERCHIEF CAPS.

The cap at the top has a frill of white Valenciennes lace surrounding the narrow brim and a narrow peaked crown formed of three bands of open gold galloon, underlaid with silk. A rosette, composed of lace and loops of white feather-edged ribbon, is against the front of the crown.

The cap on the left has a puffed crown made of a printed red surah handkerchief, about fifteen inches square. The pointed brim is of dark red velvet ribbon that is embroidered in gold. A frill of lace encircles the cap, and edges the handkerchief at the back. A small frame of net and wire forms the foundation for the cap.

The cap at the right is composed of bands of open Irish point embroidery and gros grain ribbon with a contrasting edge. A frill of the ribbon is around the front, set on a curved brim of wired stiff net, which forms the foundation of the cap, and the ends of which are connected by a ribbon bow across the back. Frills and curves of embroidery and ribbon loops fill out the crown.

VfrSt xV" ^J 4 Men's Fashions. Dress shirts to wear with low vests are of linen or pique, quite plain, or else with very slight embroidery, and are fastened by two studs instead of the single largp one formerly worn. For general uso are plain white linen shield shaped bosoms of three thicknesses of linen there are also percale bosoms with colored horizontal stripes that show beside the scarf, and with these white collars are used. The English standing collar, with the fronts turned back in quite a large point, is now most fashionable. Straight lapping collars are abandoned for those with a V-shaped opening at the throat. Cuffs are quite wide and square, with linked buttons of chased gold, or of plain white enamel for dress.

All scarfs are larger now that vests and coats are cut lower, yet a glimpse of the shirt bosom is seen on each side. Scarfs tied by the wearer are most popular, and there are also scarfs made up to look as if they had been tied when put on. Both very light and very dark scarfs are worn in figures and stripes of silk, or satin, or annure goods. Some folded scarfs are shown slightly puffed or else quite fiat, but the preference is for knotted scarfs. White, cambric ties for evening are slightly wider, but are still very narrow. Large silk mufflers to wear inside the overcoat are very dark for day use, and are striped with satin in self-colors or in contrast for evening use they are cream whito and also very pale lemon colored damask satin, or with stripes, or else bordered.—Harper's Bazar.

A Becoming Head Dress.

Elderly ladies find it a difficult matter to procure a becoming headdress, for while the shops are full of fancy caps, suitable for the young and fair, there is little choice between these and the plain caps or headdress for old women. 4 vw

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Wlin DKB8S FOR HOtfiK WSAtC One of the models in the above cut represents a cap that fulfills all the needful requirements for elderly ladies who desire an attractive headdress. Lace, bead, tulle and a pretty aigrette are the chief materials required for making this cap which completely covers the back hair.

The second model represents yet another headdress. The foundation for this, which is bound with wire and ribbon, is two inches wide in the middle, three-eighths of an inch at each end, eight and three-quarter inches long at the front edge and seven and a half at the back one. The outer arrangement consists of a three cornered piece of white tulle which is twelve inches long at the two sides on the straight and trimmed round with lace two inches wide. This kerchief is puffed over the foundation so that the end in the middle falls over toward the back, and the other two are plaited in at the ride edges of the foundation. The lace falling over the front edge is trimmed on one side with a loop border one and a quarter inches wide of glass nnri wax beads, and is taken bade on the other beneath a bow of two colore. The latter is couched on a full plaited lace part, tiln« and a half inches, behind which appear a loop and two ends, these being like the bow of brown and fawn colored cordered ribbon with a grenadine stripe at the edge threeeighth of an inch wide.

Fasblonlets.

Beaded woolen fabrics are a feature of the season. Fur pelerines and round capes reach to the waistline.

Girls under IS wear their frocks without overakirts. The preference is still for a made bow_of velvet in place of tied strings for bonnets. It is now worn slightly larger and wider. For tied bonnet strings two sets of ribbons an inch wide, velvet and faille, are used. new nursery and parlor games for little people come "election," to be played by from two to six persona. "Election'' is played with six ballot*, a box of voting tickets, and a box of forty-two cardsof voters, all packed hikudm»ba&

THE GOOD HOUSEKEEPER.

Useful Things She Has Found Out from Long Experience. Each day's work is this: Monday, washing, Tuesday, ironing Wednesday, mending Thursday, extras and incidentals Friday, sweeping, dusting and cleaning Saturday, baking.

To Make Rooms took Lurjei Corner hanging cupboards are to be recommended, not only as relieving the harshness of wall angles but as saving wall sp ice.

Combination articles of furnitures are too familiar to be here referred to. They owe much of their acceptance to the mechanical ingenuity of their construction and attractive cabinet work, as well as the economy of space which they secure.

Lightsomeness of furniture gives an impression of greater roominess. Leading upholsterers' aim is how to combine this feature with solidity of construction. In certain styles of furniture Japanese influence is apparent in this direction. /v

Some valuable space maybe obtained by setting a piano in an apparent rccess by means of a cove brought partially over it, and sheltering a music shelf, and side recesses for brio-a-brac, besides supplying a galleried shelf above. A tower liko structure may rise on each side as a bookcase, these somewhat apart from the caso, so as not to deaden the tone of the instrument.

An otherwise useless corner of a room may lie at once utilized and beautified, without any appreciable floor space being taken up, by a dwarf column supporting several triangular shelves with arched fronts from wall to wall, these being capped by dome in eastern style.

A paneled cupboard on each side of the recess, beneath the seat of a low window, the two cupboards being connected by an arch, will be found exceedingly handy.—Decorator and Furnisher* «,

Good Cookies.

Two cups of white sugar, 1 cup of sour cream, 3^ cup of butter, 1 egg and flour enough to make a soft dough, into which you have sifted baking powder at the rate of two teaspoonfuls to the quart of flour. Dont knead much, roll thin, and dou't crowd in the pans. Have a good baking fito and remove as soon as done. These are most excellent. You will see that there is not much butter used, and that is because of the sour cream. Tip them out of the hot pan on a cloth or paper, and do not put them away in the jar until cold. Sometime? cookies do not "set well," on the stomach, and the reason is that there is too much butter in them, or butter and eggs.—Indiana Farmer. C"J' .u**,

Bead Collar.

Here is a pattern for a pretty bead dog collar that you can make at home.,

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The band of jet trimming which forms the top of this collar is made to fit the neck closely, and from it hang five graduated festoons, composed partly of cut jet lieadsond partly of open work metal bead«. "_t f-'V-r Management, of Stoves.

If the fire in a stovo has plenty of fresh coals on top not yet burned through it will need only a little shaking to start it up but if the fire looks dying and the coals look white, don't shake it, When it has drawn till it is red again, if there is much ash and little fire, put coals on very carefully. A mere handful of fire can be coaxed back to life by adding another handful or so of new coals on the red spot, and giving plenty of draught, but don't shake a dying fire, or you lose it This management, is often necessary after a warm spell, when the stove has been kept dormant for days, though I hope you will net be so unfortunate as to have afire to coax up on a cold winter morning. They should be arranged over night, so that all that is

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order to have a cheery glow in a few minutes.—Good Housekeeping.

Neat Work Basket.

A very useful article in the sewing room is tin ordinary splint basket, such as grapes are sent to market in, lined with turkey red calico and with a row of pockets around the inside. An elastic cord is run in the hem of each pocket to hold the contents securely. These pockets are "awful bandy" places to tuck bits of trimming, rolls of tape, dress braid, buttons, etc., while the center of the basket quickly fills up with patterns, rolls of pieces and the like A cover of tho lining material drawn up by a string, long enough to permit it to be folded back over the basket when in use, protects the contents from dust —Household.

Skirt Protector.

A garment for the protection of the drest skirt from mud and wet consists of a skirt, the upper part of which is black muslin and the lower a broad, full band of gossamer. This garment is put on under the dress skirt, and the lower or gossamer portion of it is turned up over the outside of the dress skirt to which it is attached by small clasps. The lower part of tho dress is thus effectually encased in gossamer, and the usual gossamer cloak conceals the" protector. The protector can be adjusted to cover much or little of the dress skirt as is desired.—New York World.

The Wels Yoke.

City and country contains a pretty pattern for a strong, yet light and open lace work chemise yoke and sleeves. We reproduce it here.

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yokk.

Those of our readers who understand crocheting and fancy knitting stitches will need no further explanation than the flight of the pattern. There are plenty of ladies in every neighborhood who will know all about it, and they can teach the rest

Salt and Pepper.

The Boston Record remarks that now women can very well afford to remain single, and live happy so, since there are so many ways open to them of earning a good and independent living. Then men will think mors of them.

If the sawxpah in which milk is to be boiled be first moistened with watq, it will prevent the milk from burning.

A picturesque card case consists of an open gilded net, with the model of a fisherman in cotnpo holding op one end.

An excellent breakfast bread: Poor boiling water over two cups of previously salted while corn meal, till it la thin enough for tatter. Poor the batter into a greased hot ym sad take qofckly tom goldm brows.

GOOD HEALTH

Prevention of Deformity—Care of t) Hair—Useful Hints. Scientific people tell us there is no reasc why the hair should not be as plentiful 70 as at 25, and. it is a fact that strong healthy people often retain it to the If. Grayness, however, comes naturally wit]| years, though it frequently appears preni turely, as the result of intense mental col ditions. Bacon first expressed tho popuJa and consoling opinion that "early grtX' ness, without baldness, is a token of Ion. life." To secure or retain a good head hair cleanliness is necessary. The liberal aj I plication of a good hair brush with occasioi ally washing or cleansing secures this. Ona month is the usual period for washing scalp. Too frequent washing, especially any preparation that extracts all the oil fro! the hair be used, is injurious, and leaves tb hair harsh, dry and brittle. Yelk of an eg rubbed into the roots and upon the seat and the whole washed out with tepid wat«| and castile soap, rinsed out with clear wate is a favorite cleansing agent with many. The scalp must be rubbed briskly with towelsJ and the hair dried in the same way and left| to hang down till quite free from dampnes Brushing brings down the oil from the bulbf in the scalp and distributes it over the haiii as well as stimulates the scalp and remove! loose dandruff. A proper brush is made u/ of bristles, evenly set in the back of the brusBj so as to touch the whole surface of the sci" to which it is applied, Wire brushes ad like a comb and should be gently used. Fro-] quent, plentiful and very gentle brushing the scalp is what is needed, rather than muc. brushing of the hair itself, and is a great pit ventive of baldness. A comb should be oftei held up to the light, and if any splitting roughness of the sides of the teeth is detected I should be discarded. Hair is newest at the| root, as every one who dyes the same knov to his sorrow. Clipping the ends of the hail prevents splitting and encourages its growth This is best done whenever the hair is washed.

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Cure for Round Shoulders.-' First, having suspended two ropes withl ring handles from a doorway, swing by the I arms three minutes at a time three times a| day. Second, at night place bolster or pillow, or both, under the shoulder blades. The head| is thus brought a little below the level of the dorsal region and the spine is ctirved in direct reversal to the ordinary curves of the round.| shoulders. In the day time, frequently re cline at full length upon the front of th body, and resting upon the elbows. En courage children iu this favorite position, at it is a prevention of deformity and a great help to their symmetrica] development.

Soothing Drops

For beautifying the complexion the ancient] Roman recipe of a thick paste of rye flour applied on retiring and washed off with milk in I the morning, is a method that still finds favor with many.

A drink of hot lemonade before going to bed will often break up a cold and euro a" sore throat

A cup of cold, strong beef tea, nicely sea-1 soned and free from grease, taken during the-1 night, will overcome in many cases nervous-1 nees and sleeplessness.

Borax dtsnolved in water makes a good wash for cleansing the scalp from dandruff. It also makes the hair soft and is especially good foi- children wbowe hair is inclined, to cnrL ..

It is «ld that om will not take cold after an "egg sweat" This is produced by drinking hot water into whj[ch has been stirred an egg^ beaten up light

Bodily pains are instantly relieved by the use of St. Jacobs Oil. Dr. R. Butler, Master of Arts, Cambridge University* England, says, "It acts like magic."

Francis Murphy says thai all the help ho gets conies from tne secular press, as the religious papers ignoro him and his work. "PUCK."

A Jersey City woman refused to permit a man doctor to vaccinate her on account of her excessive modesty, and afterwards cried because her husband would not permit her to go to a masquerade ball as "Puck," her only covering being a cocked hat, dress coat, and a pair of "Pedacura Pliable Plasters," to protect her from her "horrid Corns."

What is a cold in the head? Medical authorities say it is due to atmosphericgerms, uneven clothing of the body, rapid cooling when in perspiration, Ac. The important point is, that a cold in the hpad is a genuine rhinititt, an inflamation of the lining membrane of tho nose, which, when unchecked, is certain to produce a catarrhal condition—for catarrh is essentially a "cold" which nature is no longer able to "revolve" or throw off. Ely's Cream Balm has proved its superiority, and sufferers from cold in the head should resort to it before that common ailment becomes seated and ends in obstinate catarrh.

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old physicians, retired from practloe. having had placed in his hands by an Last India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of" Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh. Asthma and all Throat and Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure for Nervous Debility and all Nervous Complaints, after having tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of cases, has felt it his duty to make it known to his suffering fellows Actuated by this motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send free of charge, to all who desire it, t,bl« recipe, in German, French or English,with full directions for preparing and uselng. Hent by mall by addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W. A. NOYKS, 140 Power's Block. Rochester, N. Y.. olfl-eow 19t.

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